At Last

The Main Commodities Index is down more than 12% in the last month, but could commodities be set for a new bull market? Richard Bernstein, Richard Bernstein Advisors CEO and CNBC.com senior writer Jeff Cox, discuss their positions.

Kevin Caron, Stifel Nicholas strategist, weighs in on the state of the U.S. economy and the importance of the last hour of today's trading session.

Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Besser had never written a musical before 'Freak Dance,' his answer to perhaps Hollywood's cheesiest genre, but you couldn't tell that by the finished product: a movie that's been a decade in the making.Although 'Freak Dance' includes all the tropes and archetypes made famous by films like 'Breakin,'' 'Save The Last Dance,' 'You Got Served,' 'Dirty Dancing' and all of the 'Step Up' movies (they're making yet another one), creator Matt Besser doesn't call it a parody -- and it's certainly nothing like the 2009 dance movie spoof 'Dance Flick.''When they started casting for 'Dance Flick' I thought, 'Oh no! We missed it! I procrastinated too long and they're going to use all the jokes,'' Besser recalled in an interview. 'Then I went and saw it and realized they didn't have any of the same jokes. They took a different take on it.'Besser started writing the script for 'Freak Dance' back in 2001, when the original UCB theater in New York City was shut down by the fire department for not having a second entrance. As he and the other original UCB members (Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh) did improv shows to raise money for their new venue, Besser was reminded of the plots of every dance movie ever. Then 'You Got Served' came out and Besser realized that breakdancing was cool again but the movies about it were still terrible, relying on the same plot lines of the cheesy dance movies of his youth in the 70s and 80s. So he set out to write a good one -- not necessarily a parody -- but a story that builds on the cliched structure of dance movies in a funny way.'What did make 'Dance Flick' coming out a bummer was when I would try describing the movie to people and they'd say, 'I'm not interested in a dance movie parody,&

DETROIT -- The Detroit City Council on Thursday gave neighborhood residents arguing over an apple orchard planted in a northwest city park a month to work out their differences.The May 31 decision follows a May 29 committee resolution to uproot the orchard, issued by council members James Tate, Kwame Kenyatta and JoAnn Watson, the Free Press reports.The three council members were responding to complaints by several neighborhood residents that 500 trees planted at Palmer Park last month by the community group People for Palmer Park would attract rodents. Some neighbors are also concerned the trees will encourage criminal activity and bring down property values. Eric Sabree, deputy Wayne County treasurer for land management, lives in the neighborhood and made some of the complaints.'All this vacant land in Detroit, and they want to put it in our neighborhood,' he lamented to the Free Press. 'We didn't move here to be next to a farm.'Dr. Ron Perry, a professor of horticulture at Michigan State University, told The Huffington Post via email that he didn't believe the trees would be a huge draw to rodents.'I know that mice are attracted to stored grain, birdfeed, dogfood, hot tubs (warm places to reside) [and] garage space during the winter,' he said. 'As to being an attractant, I don't think [the orchard] would be an issue anymore than other feed stuff.'Jason Fligger, 43, a board member of People for Palmer Park and an architecture student, lives on the less-affluent east side of the park. He said he can understand the worries about property values among the more upscale homeowners in the neighborhoods of Green Acres, Palmer Woods and Pontchartrain, which also border the park, but thinks their concerns are misplaced.'It's not going to have a haphazard community garden feel. It will complement the architecture there,' he said. 'I can appreciate the architecture of the homes, and in that aspect, th